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| From | Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: Error with logrotate. |
| Date | 2019-08-13 07:40 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <yuxHk-63S-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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On 13.08.19 00:38, Gene Heskett wrote: > Its good that we can fix it, BUT IF you are going to restrict where we > keep logfiles like this then FIX the /var/log perms so that fetchmail, > procmail, spamassassin, clamav and its ilk, running as the user can > access /var/log to keep its logs. Debian's legendary paranoia about who > can write a log in /var/log has long since forced most of us that want > that log, into moving it to /home/username/log and reprogramming > logrotate to maintain it there years ago. Nuthin' wrong with that. An individual user's logs in his tree, and system logs in theirs. No effort: $ grep log .fetchmailrc .procmailrc .fetchmailrc:set logfile "/tmp/fetchmail_log" ... .procmailrc:LOGFILE=$MAILDIR/tmp_log.$$ .procmailrc:FINAL_LOG=$MAILDIR/log If you had a house full of rowdy teenagers, would you really want them all able to wallop /var/log? And what if it were a tribe of uni students? (I think I have you sufficiently worried now, Gene.) Erik (Who was both, once.)
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Error with logrotate. Philip <philip@treads.nz> - 2019-08-12 23:40 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2019-08-13 06:10 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 06:40 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2019-08-13 07:10 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Erik Christiansen <dvalin@internode.on.net> - 2019-08-13 07:40 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 11:00 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2019-08-13 08:30 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 11:20 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-08-13 12:00 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 16:00 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> - 2019-08-13 19:20 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 19:40 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Lee <ler762@gmail.com> - 2019-08-13 21:10 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 22:00 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-08-13 22:30 +0200
Re: OT: While we're talking about logrotate (was: Re: Error with logrotate.) rhkramer@gmail.com - 2019-08-13 14:10 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2019-08-13 07:10 +0200
Re: Error with logrotate. Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-08-13 15:20 +0200
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